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If you're starting at a loss, evaluate your options.
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Relax, don't worry, and take a couple quick runs at the problem.
Stack Overflow has some pretty good best practices for getting simple things done in a language.
Once you've solved (or tried to solve) the core of the issue once (or twice) you probably have a good idea of how to get it right. Don't be afraid to fail.
As a web developer, I am constantly tasked with figuring out ways of doing things I have never done before. One of the things I have found is that you can't be afraid to try and fail. Sometimes when working on a problem I will have to try three, four or more different solutions before I find one that will work. Some people would give up after their first try, but you can't, because sometimes only with multiple tries will you find the solution you are looking for.
Also, asking your team for help if you get stuck is always an option as well. Someone else may have had to solve the same problem you are working on in another project.
Speaking of other projects, one thing I like to do when struggling to find a solution to a problem is do a search on my company's SVN repo to see if anyone else committed code for another project that does something similar to what I need to do. Sometimes this will turn up a result and will give me a head start or at least a point in the right direction.
It's ok to ask when you don't know. But listen carefully, because it's not ok to ask the same thing again.
I have some comments on the first and last answer:
On essential skill is being able to break down a problem into a number of smaller steps. Diagrams are helpful for a high level overview of what you want to do. Pseudo-code is another good technique to help you flesh out methods. With .NET and Java you can doc methods, if you write these before actually writing the methods themselves it will makes you think about what that method should actually be doing.
As for the third answer, I have to agree with the comments about anything that is termed Generic. There should be a clear set of requirements about how error handling is done. I fear what will happen in this example is something similar to the "inner-platform-effect".
As an indie game dev starting essentially from knowledge scratch, this is basically my whole life. The biggest takeaway I've found so far is the fact that nobody is an island, especially in 2014. There's a good chance that somebody, somewhere has done something similar to what you're working on. And it's usually just a Google away. Don't be afraid to ask smart questions, but like what was mentioned above, try not to ask the same thing twice. You have the benefit of working in a company around presumably smart people that could give you a hand here and there.
And like a lot of people have already said, figure out the best way for you to solve each problem individually. Diagram it, break it down. Difficult problems become much more manageable when broken down into actionable sections.
Last and probably most important, forget the attitude of "I don't know if I can do this." I know its cliche, but stop being negative and start asking yourself "what do I need to do to finish this?" If you admit defeat at the start, you aren't going to ever make it to the finish line.
I would (almost) begin a "generic error handling mechanism" task with a conversation with team members, either individually, or together. What do we all want to see this "thing" do? In this particular case, especially, your team, and your wider IT department, are the "customers" of your product. You need to collect requirements.
But before I did that I would arm myself with some preliminary studies. Research if there are any "tutorials" or "examples" already out there, perhaps on CodeProject. I'd also try to find some "luminaries" opinions floating around. Then, I'd look at some larger open source projects that would have error handling, to see how they're doing it, and also try to dig up complaints about existing error handling.
That last point is a good one. Research the common problems with error handling and see if any apply to the particular situation, so that they can be avoided up front.
Research then Discussion. That's how I usually start.
EDIT: Cleared up what exactly I would begin with...
EDIT2: I agree about that word "generic". What needs to be "generic" here? The task is to handle errors. I would say "consistent" is probably better than "generic". With error handling it's almost as much convention as "library" or whatever. The team has to agree how they're all going to be handling errors - so that everyone isn't doing their own thing. "Generic" would seem to apply if multiple teams would be using this "error handling mechanism" across multiple projects.
By being asked to create a generic error message system, you've been asked to predict every possible problem you will encounter while building something you haven't even started designing.
Start by building something. I promise you the errors will flock to you like it's the newest trendy hanging out spot.
MegamanX64 wrote:
It's ok to ask when you don't know. But listen carefully, because it's not ok to ask the same thing again.
I think this is a key point. There is no shame in a lack of knowledge. I think I've seen more train wrecks from pride and refusing to ask for help than anything else.
ELMAH is great for error handling in ASP.NET web applications.
I'd say "traditional engineering" but the cool kids would start shouting "waterfall" and throwing things.
Your first task should be to start to model your requirements. No, you don't need to bust out the UML diagrams but you do need to ask questions to determine what the problem space looks like and how things fit together.
- what kinds of things are errors? (exceptions, data quality issues, data integrity issues, business logic problems, business process issues)
- who produces them? (code, database logic, monitoring systems, reporting systems)
- who consumes them? (loggers, reporting apps, notification systems, people ...)
Asking yourself and others: who is involved, what is involved, and how do these fit together is the first stage in building a high level requirements model. This will structure the problem space into smaller chunks which you can then use to look for potential solutions.
Once you have the model it is then a good idea to look for established solution patterns - eg MS enterprise blocks - but you should hold off on that until you have your requirements model clear to avoid jumping to a great solution to a different problem!
Easiest way of programming something you have not done before - is to break it down into smaller parts. It is likely that even if you don't know how to do the main task - you do know how to solve the smaller ones.
For example one of tasks created is creating a generic error handling mechanism for the entire application.
That's a pretty important piece of the application... one that should probably be handled by one of the "old hands" at the company.
If you get it wrong you will screw up the workflow of all your colleagues. Is it actually assigned to you or are you just giving it an example of one of the tasks the entire team has to complete?
The best way to face a task you've never done before is to re-assign it to someone who has tons of experience in that task.
When that isn't an option, you should spend ~6 days discussing the problem among your colleagues and searching google (more discussions than google searches). Then spend 3 days actually working on the task.
If it needs 6 days of work, then you need to increase the discussion part to 12 days, and so on.
In my opinion new employees should not be taking on new projects. They should be fixing bugs/maintaining old projects. Then once they understand how things work, they can start working on new projects.
I've heard that inexperienced coders at Apple aren't even allowed to write any code. Their first role is just to manage the bug tracker, taking bug reports filed by other people and figuring out how to reproduce the bug and writing additional details so that someone else can actually fix it. As they get better, they might start writing in a suggestion of how it should be fixed, and this is around the time when they're likely to be assigned to a role at the company. I would love to try implementing this system where I work one day, it sounds like a great way to make sure your new employees really understand the codebase before they start working on it.
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1st step is always MSDN and then Bing.
In this case the basic MSDN search didn't find much. The Bing search returned the Patterns and Practices's Exception Handling Block as the second link.
See it might have actually been a trick question, no one really wanted you to develop it on your own, and if they did they wanted you to adapt it from the P&P library. Maybe a light version of it as the Exception Handling Block may have been overkill. Either way you'd have practical source code and you'd know how to solve the problem.
Wow, a generic error handling mechanism for the whole project.
On the good side, your manager probably realized that error handling, because it happens everywhere, is probably not tightly coupled to any other part of the project. In this way, it is easier to give to a young developer who isn't seeing the big picture very clearly yet.
On the rather more difficult side, error handling is a topic for mature coders. I know my own thinking about error handling has gone through several phases in a long career. Questions like return codes vs exceptions, localization of error messages, error recovery strategies, are all very sophisticated topics that a new developer has no hope of mastering.
You may discover that your boss really meant something vastly simpler than you think, like "Write a set of functions for copying error message text to a log file," or "Set up a couple of header files with ranges of error constants for different classes of errors." This you can probably do easily. If your boss really meant develop a whole strategy for handling errors, they get credit for thinking of the idea, but no credit for handing this important task to a new guy.
But bosses want what they want, and there's maybe nothing you can do but try to give it to them. In that case, google is your friend. You can google "error handling", "error reporting", "error reporting in C#", "error printer", and related terms and find out what packages other people have put together. Looking at the list of features of several error logging packages and asking yourself why this feature was choses will allow you to reverse-engineer a list of requirements. Seeing how different people solved the same problem might give you a sense of which implementation ideas were best, so you can recommend or code up a specific solution. This is going to get you about halfway to your goal, providing an error printing or logging facility. Having produced *something*, you may be able to fall back on "Well, I've only been doing this for three months, what did you expect?" Otherwise, I think that defining overall how the whole app will handle and recover from errors is a discussion that the whole team will have to participate in. It's extremely naive to think one person can define it. (Nevertheless, I once had a boss who was angry at me because I could not poof this problem out of existence for him.)
Analysis paralysis is common with all new engineers regardless of discipline. Try not to over think your problem. Take a chunk and get started - be it a diagram or pseudo code or something. That will get your brain in the right gear so you can ask intelligent questions of Google, your coworkers, etc.
Wickwick wrote:
Analysis paralysis is common with all new engineers regardless of discipline. Try not to over think your problem. Take a chunk and get started - be it a diagram or pseudo code or something. That will get your brain in the right gear so you can ask intelligent questions of Google, your coworkers, etc.
Sure... but he's talking about handling exceptions, which is one of the most difficult subjects any programmer will ever tackle.
There's an exception to every rule and this is one where serious analysis is needed.
If I wasn't being handed problems I'd never encountered before every single day, I'd have given up on this career a long time ago. Seriously, who wants to reinvent the wheel for decades on end?
If you don't know how to even approach solving a new problem, let alone enjoy it, programming is probably not the career for you.
Prototyping on something like Ruby on Rails is a great way to get from zero to complete product in a day or so. For example we wanted to add 2-factor auth onto our site, so I made a quick rails project, made a trivial login, and then added 2fa. It was a great way to show the feature off and get real feedback.
An important aspect of prototyping is getting something up fast, and figuring out if it is a good idea or not.
Rubber ducking works too. Just get another person from the team and start talking about it. The more you try to explain the better your ideas formulate. A good rubber duck will also help point out strengths in your ideas to help steer you.
Drawing diagrams falls into the rubber ducking category.
I also like the "stupid impl" -- a implementation that gets the job done as fast as possible with terrible names. Then start thinking abstractions, etc. but a terrible first version usually morphs into a great 2nd or 3rd version.
Oh god. Step 1 is get more requirements, easily.
Is this exceptions ala Java?
Is this some kind of central event handler?
I mean, if I have an exception, I probably want a few discrete things in place:
1 - Error catching, since I don't want to exit the process altogether, just switch to a different logic flow
2 - Logging. Duh.
3 - Event handling - I may want to fire off an event somewhere to clean up or something when time permits (in a separate thread, while this thread goes on to the next task or whatever)
Unless these are new technologies to the company, I'd hope that this has already been done on prior projects, which should give you a starting point. If you're breaking new ground, what mechanism was used on the stack that they were using? What was good? What was bad, what's desired now? Go from there.
Oh god, I'm so tired of the belief that everything starts with excessive planning and research.
MANY projects, absolutely, yes. You'd waste so much time designing a game engine without some plan of its structure. BUT, the same is simply not true at all for the article title: Something "you've never done before".
If you're entering new concepts, you're going to need at least a little bit of trial and error. I think some more experienced coders simply assume that some concepts, or even designs, will make perfect sense to someone after just reading about it in a textbook, and that you can move on to UML diagrams. But no good physics professor will simply describe the concepts of static coefficient of friction without also showing you the concept at work, and then having you try it out yourself with blocks on a ramp.
I've read all sorts of books on the graphics pipeline of DirectX, and some part of me thinks that I understand it. But, if I were ever making an engine from scratch, I'd absolutely need to do a "trial run" that does nothing but load and render sets of models; because getting the structure of that wrong could end up meaning redesigning my engine. ("Well, shoot! THAT part needs to be loaded first...? And it will SOMETIMES finish AFTER that other part?")
This is just for your own learning though, and some code will need to be written with the knowledge that you're going to throw it away; starting again thinking "Okay! I know what I was doing wrong on that last attempt, and I'm going to design the real thing a bit differently". Don't get so far that someone looks over your shoulder and says "L0K GRATE! SH1P IT111"
"Fail often, fail fast" is a good way to go. Say you are working with a binary tree. Do you start at the bottom or the top of the tree? Do I use a for loop, or do I use a recursive call?
You have to pick one, and usually only one is going to get you the best results with the cleanest, simplest code. You might get lucky and it works either way, you may get lucky and choose the right direction. But there is no sense overthinking it so you can get it right the first time, knowing a certain approach isn't going to work is more valuable than analyzing a problem to death and not writing any code. Even if you are wrong, you at least get your unit tests out of the way, which will also provide insight. Or in terms of an proof by induction you will also gain plenty of insights just working out a few base cases.
Gather requirements. Find out exactly what the team is looking for. Spend an hour reading up on the topic.
Look to see if there's an open source solution to the problem with a compatible license.
If not, figure out the simplest system that solves part of the problem. For exception handling, this could be a single try-catch around your entire program that logs the exception and restarts the program. Congratulations, you've now avoided failing the task! In my experience, it's much better to present a simplistic solution that barely addresses the problem then a well designed solution that doesn't work.
Now that you've made sure you won't get to the deadline with nothing, iterate. Make the logging configurable. Add some inner exception handling for cases that can be gracefully recovered from. Read more on the topic to see what other people have built.
Again, try to get each iteration working as quickly as possible. When you're in territory you've never dealt with before, you want to work in short sprints. A few days of coding and testing, and the system runs and is slightly better than before. Repeat.
I really like the second answer. When I graduated with my BS in CS two years ago my first job was consulting and every time I rolled onto a project I was nervous and didn't know if I could do it. A lack of confidence in my skill and abilities is something I actually recognized during my undergrad work, so it's something I have been able to identify and work on. Now I'm working in R&D with people who have PhDs and people who have have 20-30 years of industry experience and it's easy to feel dumb or unqualified. But they hired me knowing my experience, I'm learning things constantly, and it's tough, but it's basically my dream job for where I'm at in my career. If I'm unclear on something it's just a matter of asking for an explanation, and it slowly is all coming together (and changes constantly so I have to figure it out again). Your manager knows your experience and it is their job to match that with tasks that you are capable of completing, while also learning and becoming more familiar with the tools and best practices (but this also doesn't absolve you from pushing hard if they assign you a difficult task).
I also really rely on getting small things working at a time (like prototyping) and integrating that with the rest as it slowly comes together then adding robustness, error checking, better/proper memory management, etc. But just cause that works for me doesn't mean it will work for everyone, get a methodology and approach that works for you and makes sense for you.
That's the fun of it, isn't it? Learning, solving interesting problems, and constantly improving.
Polama wrote:
Look to see if there's an open source solution to the problem with a compatible license.
And use it for inspiration, but don't actually use the code unless it's a *huge* project with a years of stability under it's belt.
Almost all code has bugs, and you really want the bugs to be in your own code - not in somebody else's code.
Katana314 wrote:
If you're entering new concepts, you're going to need at least a little bit of trial and error.
Nobody has said it's not an iterative process, but to suggest you do not need research or planning (I would love to hear what you call 'excessive') before getting into it is a sign of shoot-from-the-hip development that leads inevitably to spaghetti code nobody understands 3 weeks after it's written.
Katana314 wrote:
I've read all sorts of books on the graphics pipeline of DirectX, and some part of me thinks that I understand it. But, if I were ever making an engine from scratch, I'd absolutely need to do a "trial run" that does nothing but load and render sets of models;
Sometimes little scratch programs are useful but they are by no means required. If you're smart, you'll even write those with classes/functions that you can copy/paste verbatim into the real engine when you're done testing. There is no reason to get lazy just because you're writing test code, even if the code is strictly to educate yourself.
the key is to educate yourself. Research the topics, identify two or three different approaches and learn them. Then take what you are doing and pick the approach that fits best. Be prepared to perform re-work. Work on a software design strategy before you start coding. Look for feedback on your design from more experienced developers and take their input. Then start coding.
Generic error handler in .net:
1. Catch the error
2. Assign error code
3. determine severity (FATAL, REMEDIAL)
4. Schedule event to report error. (Event generator can email error, etc)
5. Look up table that contains error code for reference by help desk.
Derive custom Exception class from Exception. Re-throw this exception when generic exception is caught.
float f = 100/0;
catch(Exception ex)
int ErrorCode = 100; //Error code that help desk will look up
//MyCustomException will create an Event that will email the help desk
throw new MyCustomException(100, "Problem Creating float", ex);
pinkeye32 wrote:
Generic error handler in .net:
1. Catch the error
2. Assign error code
3. determine severity (FATAL, REMEDIAL)
4. Schedule event to report error. (Event generator can email error, etc)
Seems pretty easy, but much depends on what your manager actually wants.
Most important, error reporting is not the same as error handling. If the manager asks for a strategy to handle errors, they may be asking how to structure the whole program so that execution can (optionally) continue after an error. The error must be disposed of, which means you need to know what the error implies. Is this an unrecoverable fatal error? Is this an error in the program's main event loop that might in principle be handled just by swallowing it and getting the next event? Does this error imply an entire subsystem is unavailable, but other subsystems may still be functioning? Is this error the cascading failure from a previous error, so that execution should be terminated even though in other circumstances, the error might be non-fatal? Can this program be divided into major sections (e.g. run/stop or startup/main loop/shutdown) where the response to an error may be different?
The basic choice of how error information propogates through the system is important. If every error can be defined by an integer code, then returning an error code may be the most appropriate method. If you want to have contextual information, like a filename or URL, then maybe you'd rather return boolean pass/fail and fill in an error structure that is an out-parameter of every function, or (gasp) a global errno variable.
Some people like exceptions, and other people hate 'em. Google, for instance, has decreed that no exceptions be thrown in C++ code. But this is difficult because C++ is defined to throw for out-of-memory errors, and for bad dynamic cast to non-pointer. Windows also throws "structured exceptions", which you have to handle and convert to return codes if you want your program to do anything but halt suddenly. And you almost always want that. Some people think exceptions reduce the complexity of the code, because they count only visible execution paths. Others think exceptions increase the complexity of the code, because they count all possible paths. Some languages and some libraries are defined to throw exceptions, which means if you want to return error codes, you must remember to wrap all such calls or your program will terminate abruptly.
If you really want your program to remain available, you have to account for all possible errors. In Windows, some library functions call a function called abort(), which mostly does just waht it says. You can take control of abort() to prevent it terminating your code. Runtime checks in Windows call a different function that behaves like abort() but is literally different. There's signals, like control-C that will stop your program inelegantly if you don't handle it.
A complete error handling strategy is so complex that even experienced developers can easily miss something unless they've spent a lot of time thinking about errors. It's something that sounds easy, but has layers of complexity and tomes of arcane lore buried inside.


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Q1 Explain architecture of SSIS?
SSIS architecture consists of four key parts:
a) Integration Services service: monitors running Integration Services packages and manages the storage of packages.
Q2 How would you do Logging in SSIS?
Logging Configuration provides an inbuilt feature which can log the detail of various events like onError, onWarning etc to the various options say a flat file, SqlServer table, XML or SQL Profiler.
Q3 How would you do Error Handling?
A SSIS package could mainly have two types of errors
a) Procedure Error: Can be handled in Control flow through the precedence control and redirecting the execution flow.
b) Data Error: is handled in DATA FLOW TASK buy redirecting the data flow using Error Output of a component.
Q4 How to pass property value at Run time? How do you implement Package Configuration?
A property value like connection string for a Connection Manager can be passed to the pkg using package configurations.Package Configuration provides different options like XML File, Environment Variables, SQL Server Table, Registry Value or Parent package variable.
Q5 How would you deploy a SSIS Package on production?
A) Through Manifest
1. Create deployment utility by setting its propery as true .
2. It will be created in the bin folder of the solution as soon as package is build.
3. Copy all the files in the utility and use manifest file to deply it on the Prod.
B) Using DtsExec.exe utility
C)Import Package directly in MSDB from SSMS by logging in Integration Services.
Q6 Difference between DTS and SSIS?
Every thing except both are product of Microsoft :-).
Q7 What are new features in SSIS 2008?
explained in other post
Q8 How would you pass a variable value to Child Package?
too big to fit here so had a write other post
Q9 What is Execution Tree?
Execution trees demonstrate how package uses buffers and threads. At run time, the data flow engine breaks down Data Flow task operations into execution trees. These execution trees specify how buffers and threads are allocated in the package. Each tree creates a new buffer and may execute on a different thread. When a new buffer is created such as when a partially blocking or blocking transformation is added to the pipeline, additional memory is required to handle the data transformation and each new tree may also give you an additional worker thread.
Q10 What are the points to keep in mind for performance improvement of the package?
Q11 You may get a question stating a scenario and then asking you how would you create a package for that e.g. How would you configure a data flow task so that it can transfer data to different table based on the city name in a source table column?
Q13 Difference between Unionall and Merge Join?
a) Merge transformation can accept only two inputs whereas Union all can take more than two inputs
b) Data has to be sorted before Merge Transformation whereas Union all doesn't have any condition like that.
Q14 May get question regarding what X transformation do?Lookup, fuzzy lookup, fuzzy grouping transformation are my favorites.
For you.
Q15 How would you restart package from previous failure point?What are Checkpoints and how can we implement in SSIS?
When a package is configured to use checkpoints, information about package execution is written to a checkpoint file. When the failed package is rerun, the checkpoint file is used to restart the package from the point of failure. If the package runs successfully, the checkpoint file is deleted, and then re-created the next time that the package is run.
Q16 Where are SSIS package stored in the SQL Server?
MSDB.sysdtspackages90 stores the actual content and ssydtscategories, sysdtslog90, sysdtspackagefolders90, sysdtspackagelog, sysdtssteplog, and sysdtstasklog do the supporting roles.
Q17 How would you schedule a SSIS packages?
Using SQL Server Agent. Read about Scheduling a job on Sql server Agent
Q18 Difference between asynchronous and synchronous transformations?
Asynchronous transformation have different Input and Output buffers and it is up to the component designer in an Async component to provide a column structure to the output buffer and hook up the data from the input.
Q19 How to achieve parallelism in SSIS?
-More questions added-Sept 2011
Q20 How do you do incremental load?
Q21 How to handle Late Arriving Dimension or Early Arriving Facts.

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Survey Misrepresents Antidepressant Use
Re: SURVEY: Antidepressants for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
I felt this survey should have asked why antidepressants were prescribed for Fibromyalgia, and also if people had used antidepressants prior to FM/CFS. For example, was the antidepressant prescribed to help with the pain of your condition, for depression, or to achieve sounder sleep, etc. I recently read an article on low cortisol, which also can cause most of Fibromyalgia & chronic fatigue's symptoms, (especially chronic fatigue) that long-term antidepressant use can cause low cortisol. I had been on Paxil for well over 20 years for depression and anxiety disorder prior to developing Fibromyalgia and in the last two years ever worsening chronic fatigue and low thyroid, low cortisol. I'd be very interested in knowing what percentage of patients with these conditions had been on antidepressants long term prior to their diagnosis. I've researched clinical studies a lot and to date have not come across any that looked at brain chemistry changes as a possible cause, and not many looking at hormones. I didn't see Pristiq on that list either and it is being prescribed for these conditions supposedly with a good percentage of favorable results. – xtingley
Reply to Article on Antidepressants and Fibro
Re: SURVEY RESULTS: Antidepressants for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
I have been prescribed probably every drug available in the class. The only one tolerable is Elavil. It does have annoying side effects that new go away with longer term use. One is constant dry mouth & hoarseness of voice. The other is difficultly urinating in the morning if taking an evening dose. The positive side is it does help me sleep longer & fall asleep faster. It also seems to lesson the frequency & severity of migraine headaches. Especially when paired with a beta blocker metoprolol, I take for high BP. A gentlemen made a comment on this article & asked about medication being applied by injection to his specific areas of pain. That is available & called a trigger point injection. My fibro doc is a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Specialist. He offers the injections. For those squeamish about needles, a good certified massage therapist, medical message therapist or physical therapist can release the trigger spots temporarily. If you feel you want longer term relief & can tolerate injections it should give most patients at least some relief. This illness is so frustrating. Nothing seems to work for any length of time. We also still have credibility issues despite our growing numbers of people with this puzzling pain syndrome. I believe fibromyalgia is a hyper vigilant central nervous system disorder & that is why is manifests differently in each patient. I think after the body is screaming at us to stop the pain with no success, an autoimmune & adrenal response occurs, making diagnosis & successful treatment even more unlikely. – LauraLee0302
Lyrica Makes a Difference
Re: The Lyrica Effect: Lyrica Study Uncovers Key Brain Abnormalities in Fibromyalgia
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2001, and was put on a wide variety of drugs over time, and took as many as ten at a time. Each time, my doctor would as if the drug was helpful, and my response for most was, "I don't know. Maybe it would have been worse without it." However, about a year after Lyrica was approved for the use of fibromyaliga, I tried it. Wow! Now I really knew how to answer the question. The difference was like night and day. Almost immediately, my pain levels decreased dramatically and my sleep was also improved in a big way. Being on Lyrica allowed me to wean off everything except Lyrica, and I've recently decreased even the Lyrica from 300MG daily to 200 MG per day. There is not question to me that Lyrica is doing something to the part of the brain that has been seriously impaired. – pearls
Nutrition and Fibro
Re: Epigenetic Alterations in Women with Fibromyalgia
Let's take it one step deeper and consider the possibility that due to genetic defects FM patients may not be able to absorb nutrients from birth. – BlackBeltw/Fibro
Antiepieptic Drugs – Mechanism is Different and Broad
Re: A Review of Antiepileptic Drugs for Neuropathic Pain and Fibromyalgia
Both gabapentin and pregabalin act on the a2d-1 subunnit of voltage-gated calcium channels. Mainly the pre-synaptic terminals of the dorsal root ganglion neurons and probably the dorsal root horn neurons. These have been implicated in the fibromyalgia pathology. Gabapentin also modulates NMDA receptors, pKc and some inflammatory cytokines or their miRNA. This is why pregabalin and gabapentin can be effective. Those people with spinal compression fracture or stenosis will benefit most. Some people seem not to have spinal involvement and seem to benefit less. Of course this is also very muddy due to unclear diagnostic criteria. – IanH
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Walled Lake Superintendent says an increase in state funding will be 'devastating'
The superintendent of the school district that has on average the third-highest paid teachers in the state said in a letter posted on the district's website that a $50 per-pupil foundation allowance increase from the state was "devastating."
Walled Lake Consolidated School District Superintendent Kenneth Gutman's response to the state budget claimed the $50 per-pupil increase in funding would translate to "another $518,000 loss for Walled Lake Schools."
A $50 per-pupil increase for a district with 15,000 students would generate about $750,000 more dollars for the district. It's unclear how Gutman came up with the loss figure. In the letter, he lamented the fact that "the majority of Michigan districts will receive as much as $175 per pupil additional," but Walled Lake was slated to receive "only $50" more per student.
School district officials didn't respond to requests for comment.
"It's only in the public education sector that an increase in funding is considered to be a cut," said Audrey Spalding, education director for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Many superintendents focus on the "per-pupil foundation allowance" funding because it funds most of the general operations for school districts. However, the foundation allowance is just a share of the money public schools receive from the state.
For example, the foundation allowance supplied the Oakland County school district with about $90.3 million in 2013-14. But the district received an additional $16.4 million to pay for things such as adult education, school lunch, special education and teacher retirement costs.
The state of Michigan has given the Walled Lake district an additional $3.1 million since 2008-09 despite the district having about 700 fewer students in those four years. The state gave Walled Lake $106.7 million in 2013-14 and $103.6 million in 2008-09. Enrollment dropped at Walled Lake to 15,012 in 2013-14 from 15,711 in 2008-09.
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools had total revenue of $196.5 million in 2008-09 and it has dropped to $176 million as of 2012-13. That $20 million reduction has come mostly from a $15.1 million drop in property taxes and a $4.7 million drop in federal grants and entitlements.
Teachers in the Walled Lake district earned $82,131 per year on average as of 2012-13, the latest year the Michigan Department of Education released salary data. The average teacher salary in the state was $62,350 in 2012-13.
Employee salaries and benefits accounted for 67 percent of Walled Lake's general fund budget in 2012-13.
The district had five teachers in 2013 who made more than $100,000. The top of the salary pay scale in the union contract is $91,403, but teachers can earn extra money by taking on additional responsibilities.
Gutman's 2013 salary is listed as $224,906 with a total compensation of $270,491. In the letter, Gutman said he was taking "what equates to a 3 percent salary concession."
See also:
Which Michigan School Districts Pay The Most?
Education Denied To 15K Walled Lake Students
Elementary Students Forced To Write Advocacy Letters To Governor Criticizing Education Cuts
Walled Lake Teacher Contract Analysis
Walled Lake District Tells Parents That Choice Threatens Funding


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DAYTON, Tenn. - King College picked up a 4-3 women's soccer victory at Bryan (Tenn.) College Saturday for the first Lady Tornado road win of 2010.
The Lady Tornado improved to 3-8 overall and 1-5 in road contests this season. Bryan went to 7-5-1. Saturday's one-goal difference was the fourth straight time King had beat Bryan by a lone goal. The victory was also the first one-goal win of the season for the Lady Tornado after winning by two and three goals in the other two wins. King had only played in one other one-goal contest, a 2-1 loss at Limestone (S.C.) College on Sept. 29.
Morgan Shelton (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Hannah Shankle (Bristol, Va.) and Devon Shanklin (Knoxville, Tenn.) all provided a score for King in the contest. The fourth goal was an own goal put into Bryan's net themselves. For Shelton it was her team-high sixth goal of the season with Shankle having No. 5 and Shanklin's first of 2010. Shankle got an assist on her score from Abigail Shankle (Bristol, Tenn.) on a score in the early moments of the second half.
Shanklin's score proved to be the game winner as Bryan posted a goal in the final minute of play.
King also improved the road scoring with the four goals after just posting two goals in the first five road contests of the season. The four goals also match the season high which came two weeks ago against Young Harris (Ga.) College.
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Lecher joined the faculty of PCRHS in July 2012 as a theology teacher. He previously served as a philosophy teacher at the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School, a theology teacher at Central Catholic Jr./Sr. High School in Lafayette, a site director for the youth enrichment program at Jeremiah Gray-Edison Elementary in Indianapolis, and a teacher selector with The New Teacher Project/Indianapolis Teaching Fellows. In 2007, he was selected by the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana to serve on its High School Theology Curriculum Committee.
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"In the aftermath of storms, the transportation industry is always strained, not only with assessing the physical damage to their own facilities, but in dealing with customers whose freight had been damaged or delivery delayed." -Lawrence J. Roberts, transportation attorney
Hurricane Ike left one hell of a mess behind, didn't it? Though the storm surge thankfully only reached 15 feet - not the 25 foot level everyone feared - its winds and heavy rains socked the gulf coast of Texas with a massive roundhouse punch, practically flattening Galveston and causing an estimated $12 billion in damage.
The repercussions of Ike's fury are already being felt nationwide as gasoline prices jumped nearly 18 cents per gallon over the last few days, driving the average cost per gallon up over $3.80. This after the price of oil actually DROPPED to below $96 per barrel in special trading this weekend. One major reason for this dichotomy is that 42% of the oil refinery capacity in the U.S. is located (you guessed it!) right in the gulf coast area Ike hit. So with some eight out of 14 refineries in Texas alone shutting down ahead of the storm - and with post-hurricane damage assessments not yet completed - it's no wonder fuel prices are spiking.
[The ire of Ike. Photo courtesy of NOAA.]
Needless to say, it's already been a rough hurricane season. While Ike may yet rank as the third costliest hurricane to strike the U.S. (Katrina is number one while Hurricane Andrew, which hit Florida in 1992, claims second place), don't forget about Hurricane Gustav (which whacked New Orleans back in August) nor Tropical Storm Hanna (which hit North Carolina and drenched the east coast). They also left a trail of expensive damage in their respective wakes, too.
So from all of these natural catastrophes, what can truckers learn? What are the lessons left for trucking in the wake of such calamities?
Lawrence J. Roberts, a 20-year veteran transportation lawyer, penned a shot article about this very subject back in 2005, right after Hurricane Katrina's nasty visit to New Orleans. He contended - and rightly so - that the immediate effects of such storms are no surprise to those familiar with the disruption of business inherent with any natural disaster.
"Traffic was diverted and roads were closed. The flow of goods and services was disrupted, because deliveries could not be made to hurricane ravaged areas," Roberts said. "Storage facilities were destroyed, and employees were pulled away to take care of their own property and families."
[What Ike's wrath did to Texas. Photo courtesy of CBC News, Canada.]
There is, however, a bright spot - if it can be called that - for truckers in particular when disasters like these strike. "During post-storm clean-up efforts, sectors of the transportation industry enjoyed an immediate surge in business," he said. "As rebuilding efforts began, the need for durable goods and building materials helped us get back on track [after Katrina]. Some trucking companies handled FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] loads, while others began transporting generators, tools, and household goods as the need arose."
One thing Roberts stressed, though, is familiar to anyone who ever served in the Boy Scouts: Be prepared. Without preparation, any business or individual is going to be left in dire straits when storms of any magnitude - much less one like Ike - hit their area.
"We must prepare now for future natural disasters, to minimize the impact on our facilities, employees, and customers," Roberts stressed. "In my years representing transportation businesses throughout North America, my clients and I have seen how hurricanes affect our livelihoods."
With that in mind, he offers some suggestions on how to minimize the impact such storms can deliver:
Document your work. Document whatever steps you take to safeguard shipments and protect cargo from acts of God. If you have done everything you can to shield freight from natural disasters, you will have a much better chance of minimizing your exposure in the legal arena. In other words, be smart about it, and document how smart you were.
Back up your computer system. Before hurricane season, make sure your computers are backed up, preferably off site, and the programs to restore your business data are current. Also, practice restoring your system prior to the start of hurricane season. After the fact is not the time to test.
Set up an employee call network. Get employee phone and cell numbers and break your workforce into groups. If there is a natural disaster, have one person in charge of calling everyone in their group, then reporting back to management.
Have adequate generator capacity. Make sure you have a generator that can run your facility before a disaster strikes. Needless to say, a reliable fuel source is a must. Set it up and test it before hurricane season begins.
Stockpile supplies. Store non-perishable food items and other essentials that may be needed after a storm, to create an environment where employees will want to come to work. If you take care of your employees after a disaster, they will take care of you.
Train dispatchers on emergency procedures. Ensure that dispatchers have adequate notice to get employees and freight off the road and to a safe shelter as a storm approaches.
Secure your facility. Take basic precautions to protect your facilities and your customers' cargo. Bring freight inside a facility to protect it from inclement weather, or route shipments away from a terminal that is in the path of bad weather.
Plan for after the storm. Designate a team to assess damages and take stock of what's happened after the danger has passed.
There are other issues, too, such as making sure your trucks, cargo, and (most critical of all) drivers are safe wherever they gat dispatched to in a disaster area. Vince Pearce, national response program manager for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) addressed issues like this at a special "Considerations of Freight in Disaster Planning" meeting held in December 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.
[Ike left a lot of devastation behind. Photo courtesy of CBC News, Canada.]
"Security is another challenge," he said in his speech three years ago. "There was localized lawlessness after Katrina passed through Louisiana. Haulers of commodities had to think about the safety of personnel and pay loads. It may not just be the bad guys that represent that threat. In fact, local officials may also appropriate these federally provided assets without the consultation of the providers and yet again we are responsible for our employees and need to know where they are and that they're in safe condition. Security is an issue both en route and at the destination. If you're moving a scarce commodity, for example if you were moving fuel oil during the height of the shortages and price hikes are common, then that's the thing that's highly desirable in the disaster area."
Regulatory concerns also came up as well, Pearce noted. "There needs to be appropriate consideration of what regulations can be relaxed so that disaster response can proceed at a deliberate pace," he said. "This is not a one-entity-controlled all environment. We have federal, state and local regulations that we have to deal with. One of challenges that we face in the federal regulatory environment is hours of operation and that's one we had to be very aware of."
Likewise, Pearce said overloads may be appropriate in the transportation structure, as obviously the more goods you can get in the disaster zone the faster, the more relief you can provide to the disaster victims. "Use of untaxed fuel may also be necessary," he added. "We used a fair amount of fuel provided by the Department of Defense and provided in some cases fuel that was potentially direct from refinery stores to keep both our economy going and to keep our responders able to carry out their mission in the disaster zone."
One of the things not always thought of is that waivers may be needed far outside of disaster zone, said Pearce. "Our first source of oversize loads came from Cumberland, Maryland. It was not a disaster zone, but a place where we needed help to get the house trailers and portable structures down in the disaster zone," he explained. "Another unique thing with Katrina is that the waiver periods went on much longer than the typical month that we have dealt with historically for hurricanes."
Given the situations that may be faced, knowing that a load is a disaster relief load becomes pretty important. "During Katrina we did something pretty simple and it worked pretty well. A FEMA region office created a letter with the FEMA logo and appropriate text saying, 'Hey, the folks operating this vehicle are carrying a genuine disaster response load. Give them due consideration,'" noted Pearce. "You've got to remember that these relief loads get hauled by the private sector - it's not like they're carrying military ID or pre-issued FEMA ID or something like that. These are trucking firms from all over the nation and we need to be able to give them something so that local law enforcement, fuel providers and so forth recognize the critical mission they're on."
Finally, there's the issue of freight delays. "Delays in the disaster zone are pretty much standard operating procedure," Pearce stressed. "One of the sources is that the logistics process itself is not an exact science. Understanding the needs and typing of the needs may lead to pretty serious backups. Similarly it's not just the logisticians that are charged with this. The elected officials will telephone and make their will known and sometimes we end up with significant amount of resource at least temporarily greater than demand."
He added that when you get a queue potentially miles long in the staging area or moving down into a distribution point, you may get delays resulting simply from processing time. "There may also be routing problems because of debris or damage to the infrastructure or a lack of communications," Pearce said. "Flexibility is the key whether it's to delays, or permitting or whatever understanding of how movement of the disaster response works and realizing that deadlines are going to be important, but we're going to be faced with many challenges. Understanding the process is essential and whatever can be done to make communication easier, whether it's two-way pagers or Blackberries or a couple of different carriers on cell phones, whatever."
The challenge, he said, is getting word to the drivers that the route or designation may need to be changed if a facility is no longer available or whatever. "So creating the flexibility, working in a way that's flexible in dealing with the demands and understanding they are part of the way of life is really important to success," Pearce stressed.
Indeed, this is all good information. Maybe not of much help now, as recovery operations post-Ike are already in full swing, but definitely something to think about before the next storm hits.


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School's Out For Summer!
June 14, 2011
The countdown began a couple of weeks ago, when my six-year-old was moping about each morning, telling me, "I'm sick!" when he was only, variously, tired, cranky, or wishing he could stay home and play with his little brother. "Only 14 more days of school," I'd say, "you can make it!"
Today, with the retirement of a beloved kindergarten teacher approaching and the skittering knowledge that going back to Bridger is an impractical choice that would likely result in ill attention for my rising first-grader's rising needs -- he's been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, something that just can't be supported in a neighborhood classroom of 38 first-graders, and now that his big brother isn't going to the school, he no longer gets the "tagalong" status allowing a school bus to take him the 3.5 miles from our house -- I'm saying so long to a school community I'd really grown to love. There are too many people to whom to say goodbye.
I'm not the only one among the urbanMamas who is saying goodbye. I'll let Olivia tell her own story, but her Facebook status last night about an exchange with her graduating oldest daughter had tears in many of our eyes. There are littler goodbyes -- preschool graduations, neighborhood moves, and the like. I chatted yesterday with a life-changing therapist, one who'd worked with Everett in an unusually empathetic and knowing way. All of the mental health professionals -- all of them, except for one school psychologist assigned to each school (often on a half-time basis) -- are losing their jobs. Those with seniority will be re-assigned, maybe as school counsellors. The special ed director has decided that children's mental health shouldn't be supported by schools. (More about this later.)
It's a sparkling, celebratory time for many children, but even those like Truman who spent considerable energy trying to stay home will miss the friends and teachers they loved. A bittersweet time of release from schedules and change in environment. A hope for warm sidewalks and bare feet and ripe strawberries from the garden. The feeling is in the air and in the skips of students through the streets.
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Freezing hops could lead to a tastier beer
BOISE — A South Dakota man is trying to convince a skeptical mix of hops farmers, food-freezing companies and brewers that he has a way to a produce a tastier beer.
The Idaho Business Review reports that Steve Polley through his company Dakota Hops wants to become a distributor of frozen hops grown in southwestern Idaho.
"It's almost as if no one had ever tried freezing a hop," said Polley.
Idaho produces about 8 percent of the total U.S. yield, according to the USDA's 2011 national hops report.
Polley said freezing the hops will preserve more flavor for breweries and result in a higher quality beer. He's been working with the Deschutes Brewery in Oregon to test his hops on some different batches.
But farmers say they're concerned freezing will turn the hops mushy.
"I'm not going to bad-mouth them and say it won't ever work," said Diane Hass, a hops grower at Gooding Farms near Parma. "Maybe it will, but they have a lot of proving to do."
Food processing specialist Jeff Kronenberg at Boise State University said higher-quality freezing using liquid nitrogen could work, but commercial freezer owners will likely be unwilling to bring in aromatic hops that could taint other food.
"Liquid nitrogen is very expensive," Kronenberg said. "It is the highest-quality freezing technology. It is used on really fragile foods, like strawberries."
Polley said Dakota Hops has used some liquid nitrogen freezing at a 20-acre organic hops farm near Wilder. But he said they don't have the ability to freeze and package enough hops to make it profitable.
The last step in the process is to find a buyer for frozen hops. Besides the Deschutes Brewery, he's trying to find other breweries open to the idea of using frozen hops.
"I know we have a very long learning curve in convincing the hop (growing) people this will work, but we will have an easier time convincing the brewery people," Polley said.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) -- January 15th, 2009, a US Airways jet had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when birds took out an engine. Time was running out, and he had to land somewhere fast. The Hudson River...the emergency landing is now known as the miracle on the Hudson.
Captain Sullenberger was the last one off the plane...slowly sinking in freezing water. He thinks about it all the time.
"It's definitely a part of me, and I get reminders every day," said Sullenberger.
WKYT's Sam Dick met up with Sully, as he likes to be called, at a place that represents tragedy to the Lexington community and beyond. The memorial to flight 5191.
"I think we need to remember the lives lost, and honor them by making the system better," said Sullenberger.
Sully is in Lexington as the keynote speaker at Wednesday's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Foundation Annual Dinner. He shared what his first thoughts were on seeing the 51-91 memorial to 49 victims.
"In aviation, everything we know, every procedure we have, every rule in the rule book, ultimately is because someone somewhere died, and sometimes many people," said Sullenberger. "And so in aviation, we have learned important lessons, that have been purchased at great cost, literally bought in blood."
Sully no longer flies for the airlines. His mission is to make flying safer.
"We have an obligation to remember and pass on this institutional knowledge to the next generation of pilots, and not have to relearn them at great cost."
In addition to writing books, giving talks, and running a safety consulting company, sully is an aviation expert with CBS news.


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Figure 1: Add Favorite Teams
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Figure 4: Change TV - iPhone
Why are Record buttons and Scheduled Recording red dots showing for a TV I have in focus that is not a DVR?
Xfinity TV Sports Remote provides you a view of all the activity happening on ALL of your cable boxes. If you have a DVR on the account RECORD buttons will automatically appear to record the game. If you have more than one DVR you will want to set up your Default.
Set up Default DVR (only if you have more than one):
1. Tap Settings
2. Tap TV Settings section
3. Locate the DVR that is set to default
4. Change the Default DVR by tapping another DVR.
NOTE: If a customer has a new STB or DVR it will take up to 3 business days for it to show up in the app
Figure 5: Set Default DVR
Why aren't all games and shows in the sports genre channels listed in the Xfinity TV Sports Remote?
The Xfinity Sports Remote only lists Live Sports games that are being played that day. Comcast currently has agreements with the teams included in the app already. More programming will be added over time.
Xfinity TV Sports Remote keeps track of all the games that are on your TV- even if they are in a sports package. Games that are listed with "Watch on TV." Games that are in a premium sports package will list it's name. If you try to tune to this game the app will ask you if it's in your subscription- "Do you subscribe to <PACKAGE NAME>? If so, we'll update your settings."
NOTE: If customer taps YES from the "Do you subscribe…" prompt the app will automatically list those games as "Watch on TV"
There is no way to add a sports package to your subscription from the app. Call 1-877-870-4310
Favorites is the section where you can keep track of teams when they are not in the TV lineup. This is excellent for out of market teams that you follow.
Live on TV is the sections of the app where all games are displayed that are available in your viewing area.
Channel lineups are automatically set when a customer signs into Xfinity TV Sports Remote. Tap the Settings icon. Tap Channel Lineup. Enter the Zip code where you live. Select the channel lineup that matches the one on the cable box.
The Xfinity TV Sports Remote treats games as high priority on the DVR. If your DVR is set already the app will schedule the game to record with all the DVR defaults in place.
The Watch Game / Watch Channel button changes the TV channel. This service requires software to be loaded and working on the actual cable box. These buttons might not work if the cable box has been unplugged recently (in the past 6-8 hours). Waiting the six hours typically fixes this problem if the cable box has been power cycled recently.
XfinityTV.com/Xfinity.com Support
Twitter: @XfinityTVJoe
What equipment is this app available for? I don't see it in the Apple app store.
Hi WarEagle57,
The XFINITY TV Sports Remote is available on iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone running iOS 4.3 or higher.
Hope this helps.
Can you supply a link for it?
Thanks! It doesn't show up in a search of the Apple app store.
Np. For some reason the apple store search is very slow to update today. Hopefully it will start showing up for both iPhone and iPad soon. Looking forward to your feedback. Hope you enjoy!
Hi all,
I meant to close this thread so it would just have the FAQ in it but I forgot.
If you have any issues with the Xfinity TV Sports Remote App, please create a new thread and I will help you.
XfinityTV.com/Xfinity.com Support
Twitter: @XfinityTVJoe


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